Oracle Custom Workflow Redesign best practices

Hi All,
Morning , need some help with this scenario.
We are in the process of redesigning existing developed custom Oracle Workflows in our system ( Oracle Apps Release 12.0.6 )
hence wanted to know if there are steps or guidelines/best practices which could be followed in this situation on points like handling performance issues with the workflow , how to handle the purging of the obsolete workflow data , design steps regards notifications, how to handle error conditions with workflow activities and how to retry activities ( means if any activity within the workflow process shows error how it could be retried or re executed in real time without any delay).
means any pointers which could be considered for this redesign actvity , any best practices document/steps and guidelines would be really very very helpful here...
Regards

This is a very broad question - narrowing it to specifics might help folks respond better.
There are a lot of documents on MOS that refer to best practices from a technology stack perspective.
Oracle Workflow Best Practices Release 12 and Release 11i (Doc ID 453137.1)
As far as functional practices are concerned, these may vary from module to module, as functionality and workflow implementation vary from module to module.
FAQ: Best Practices For Custom Order Entry Workflow Design (Doc ID 402144.1)
HTH
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